LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Steamers Bothal and Viking
MARCH 20TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
The Danish steamers Bothal and Viking had been sunk by torpedo, with the loss of thirty lives. and the survivors were left adrift on rafts. Two of these rafts were seen by an RAF machine...
Padstow's New Motor Life-Boat
Inaugural Ceremony by H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G.
THE new Padstow Motor Life-boat was named on 21st July by H.E.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G., the name given to her being Princess Mary.
The new...
Category: Inaugurations
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
From ist April to 3Oth June, 1965, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 104 times. On 27 occassions - described in chronological order below - they were able K) rescue people in difficulties.
Mudeford, Hampshire....
Category: Services
Spes Melior
Arranmore, Co. Donegal-At 8.20 p.m. on 23rd January, 1967, the Malin Head radio informed the honorary secretary that the British trawler Spes Melior was drifting one mile south east of Tory Island. Her engine had broken down and she wanted...
The Kismet, of Preston
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 11.45 in the morning the life-boat coxswain, while on the pier at Lytham, saw a sailing yacht coming up the river with her mast and sail overboard. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a...
Canton of Scarborough
On the 29th No- vember, the smack Canton, of Scarborough, was observed with signals of distress during a strong wind. The Annie life-boat went off and succeeded in placing the vessel in comparative safety outside St. Andrew's Harbour at...
Services of Life-Boats Belonging to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—On the 24th July, at 8 P.M., a flat was seen to drive into broken water on the Barnard Wharf Sand, off Fleetwood. The Fleetwood life-boat proceeded at once to her aid ; she proved to be the William, of Liverpool, coal...
Category: Services
Mrs Brian Miles. RNLI Director Lt Cmdr Brian Miles. Mrs Ian Oliver, and Dr Ian Oliver of Grampian Police Are Introduced to Hm the Queen
Mrs Brian Miles. RNLI Director Lt Cmdr Brian Miles. Mrs Ian Oliver, and Dr Ian Oliver of Grampian Police are introduced to HM The Queen, with the Lord Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire. Captain Colin Farquharson. in attendance.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rosehearty
YACHT FOUND NEAR ROCKS IN FOG St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 4.20 on the morning of the 22nd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore and had been holed three miles west of St. Abbs Head. At 4.40 the...
Five Intrepid Members of the Lansdowne Indoor Climbing Club
Five intrepid members of the Lansdowne Indoor Climbing Club, (7 to r) Paul Ward, Mike Boyce, Ian Burgess, Steve Towill and Colin Ward, ready to set out from their base camp at the Lansdowne public house, Dawlish. These men crawled— literally... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs